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Active on the artistic scene since the 1970s, Richard Mill plays an important role in the history of abstract painting in Quebec. His body of work expresses an epurated language and a subtle gesture close in spirit to the American minimalists. The use of a restrained selection of colors or the repetition of the motive are some of the recurrent strategies in the artist’ vocabulary. Mill introduces a reflexion on the nature of painting and does not hesitate to augment its scope of action by extending his frames and stretchers or by introducing sculptural elements investing fully the exhibition space.

Richard Mill lives and works in the city of Quebec, where he taught for more than thirty years at the School of Visual Arts of Université Laval. His works has been shown extensively across Quebec, in France and in Belgium, and are part of many private and public collections, including the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Art Bank of Canada, the Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Collection Prêts d'oeuvre d'art, Hydro-Québec, the Musée d'art de Joliette, the Musée régional de Rimouski, the Fédération des Caisses Desjardins and the Bank of Montreal. He is currently presented in the exhibition La question de l'abstraction at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.